A confrontation erupted between the Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) and the Janata Dal (United) on Friday after former Delhi chief minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal wrote a letter to Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar to “deeply mirror” on Union house minister Amit Shah’s feedback on B R Ambedkar and the JD(U) in flip slammed the AAP chief for not giving illustration to Dalits.
The confrontation got here amid the faceoff between the central authorities and the opposition INDIA bloc which have accused one another of getting proven disrespect to Ambedkar.
After Shah’s remark about Ambedkar throughout a speech within the Rajya Sabha was dubbed as an “insult” to the nation’s first regulation minister by the Opposition, Kejriwal shot off a letter to Telugu Desam Social gathering (TDP) chief and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu and JDU’s Kumar to rethink their partnership with the BJP. Each the TDP and the JDU are a part of the ruling Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP).
In his letter, Kejriwal mentioned folks really feel that those that love Ambedkar can’t assist the BJP that “insulted” the architect of India’s Structure and urged Kumar and Naidu to ponder over it.
JDU working president and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Jha, in his response to Kejriwal, slammed him for not giving political illustration to Dalits and backward lessons, and mentioned a pacesetter tainted with corruption fees doesn’t have the suitable to provide strategies to “somebody like Kumar”.
Jha accused Kejriwal of overlooking the marginalised sections and mentioned the AAP didn’t ship a single chief from the Dalit and backward castes to the Rajya Sabha. He additionally accused him of backtracking on his promise of choosing a Dalit deputy chief minister in Punjab.
“Nitish Kumar appointed a MahaDalit as chief minister (Jitin Ram Manjhi in 2014). Kejriwal ought to have a look at his monitor report… when he left the CM’s put up, why did he not make a Dalit the CM, why didn’t he accomplish that in Punjab as properly the place Dalits are in enormous numbers,” Jha mentioned.
He went on so as to add that two Dalits ministers resigned from the Kejriwal cupboard alleging that the welfare of their folks was being missed.
Jha went on to say that when Kumar throughout his alliance with the INDIA bloc had raised the difficulty of caste-census, there was little assist from the opposite companions.
He additionally slammed Kejriwal for the way folks from Bihar have been handled by the Delhi authorities in 2020, when the Covid Pandemic struck. “….We now have seen how folks from Bihar have been packed in buses and despatched again throughout Covid. After which Nitish Kumar made all of the preparations for them in Bihar,” he mentioned.
There was no speedy response out there from the AAP to Jha’s allegations.
